--- sourceDocument: zurich Combined Product Files sourceDocumentLink: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/zurich/delta-yokohama-zurich Release : - zurich ft:locale : - en-US ft:publication_title : - zurich Combined Product Files ft:clusterId : - delta3zy bundleId : - delta3zy --- # Combined Data Privacy release notes for upgrades from Yokohama to Zurich # Combined Data Privacy release notes for upgrades from Yokohama to Zurich {#ariaid-title1} Release version: Zurich Updated October 8, 2026 ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 4 minutes to read Summarize ![AI sparkle icon](https://servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ai-sparkle-icon) Summarized using AI This content was generated using new OpenAI-powered functionality. Results are provided on an as is basis and are not guaranteed to be accurate or complete. ## Summary of Combined Data Privacy Release Notes for Upgrades from Yokohama to Zurich This consolidated guide helps ServiceNow customers prepare for upgrading Data Privacy from the Yokohama release to Zurich. It includes essential information on licensing changes, new features, changes to existing functionality, activation details, and highlights to support a smooth transition and maximize the value of Data Privacy capabilities in Zurich. Show full answer Show less ## Key Features * **New Data Discovery Experience:** Zurich introduces a simplified and intuitive interface for discovering and anonymizing personally identifiable information (PII), including a guided setup for first-time users. * **Column-Level Discovery:** Enables scanning of specific table columns for granular and targeted sensitive data discovery, improving precision and efficiency. * **Anonymization of Encrypted Fields:** Supports anonymization of encrypted columns, helping meet compliance requirements and enhancing data protection. * **Text-to-Regex via Large Language Models (LLMs):** Leverages Now Assist and approved third-party LLMs to create regex data patterns through natural language prompts, streamlining pattern creation for sensitive data detection. * **Expanded Attachment Support:** Discovery now includes Microsoft Excel (XLS) and CSV files, enabling incremental scans of attachments for sensitive data. * **Enhanced Full and Incremental Scans:** Data Discovery jobs support full type scans of all records and incremental delta scans since the last full scan for improved scanning management. * **Keyword Matching Improvements:** More precise regex keyword matching uses full text strings, which may require customers to update keyword variants to maintain discovery accuracy. * **Real-Time AI/ML Data Discovery (Yokohama Feature):** Utilizes Named Entity Recognition (NER) models for detecting sensitive data without fixed patterns and supports real-time anonymization. * **Now Assist Integration (Yokohama Feature):** Sanitizes sensitive data entered in Now Assist prompts to prevent data leakage without affecting response quality. ## Licensing and Activation Customers can install Data Discovery, Data Discovery APIs, Data Anonymization, and Data Privacy APIs without an entitlement license, but an entitlement is required to run jobs. Activation of Data Privacy is done through the Data Privacy plugin (sndpstoreapp), available via the ServiceNow Store in both Yokohama and Zurich releases. ## Changes and Considerations * There were no removals or deprecations related to Data Privacy features between Yokohama and Zurich. * Improved regex keyword matching precision may necessitate updating keyword lists to retain discovery effectiveness. * Attachment scan jobs now support XLS and CSV file formats and are incremental by default. * No changes were introduced regarding additional requirements, browser compatibility, accessibility, or localization between Yokohama and Zurich. ## What to Expect By upgrading to Zurich, you gain a more user-friendly Data Discovery experience with enhanced capabilities for granular data scanning, encrypted data anonymization, and broader attachment support. Integration with Now Assist and the use of AI/ML models facilitate more accurate and efficient sensitive data identification and protection. The upgrade requires attention to licensing entitlements for executing jobs and potentially updating keyword matching configurations to maintain compliance and discovery precision. Consolidated page of all release notes for Data Privacy from Yokohama to Zurich. ## How to use this page To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Data Privacy release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Yokohama to Zurich. Tip: If there were no updates for a release notes section in a certain family release, we included a short note for your reference. For example, if a product did not have any updates in Tokyo, the row says "No updates for this release." ## Important information for upgrading Data Privacy to Zurich Before you upgrade to Zurich, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__2} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | Upgrade information : Licensing changes enable you to install Data Discovery, Data Discovery APIs, Data Anonymization, and Data Privacy APIs without an entitlement, but you must have an entitlement to run a job. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## New features Between your current release family and Zurich, new features were introduced for Data Privacy. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__8} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | [AL/ML Based Data Discovery for Real Time Anonymization](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=now-assist-for-data-privacy-landing&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US) : Use AI/ML data discovery using Named Entity Recognition (NER) models to discover sensitive data that does not follow a pattern like name, address, organizations, and more; and run real-time anonymization. [Configuring Data Privacy for Now Assist](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=configure-now-assist-data-privacy&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US) : Sanitize sensitive data entered in Now Assist prompts to prevent data leakage without impacting the response. [Discover sensitive data from attachments.](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=configure-data-discovery-jobs&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US) : Discover and report on sensitive data from attachments. | | Zurich | [New Data Discovery experience](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=data-discovery-landing&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) : Use the new Data Discovery experience, which simplifies the experience of discovering and anonymizing PII. [Column-level discovery](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=granular-configuration&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) : Select a specific column of a table for granular scanning during data discovery jobs. [Anonymization of encrypted field](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-data-anonymization&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) : Anonymize encrypted columns to help you achieve compliance with data privacy regulations and defense-in-depth data protection. | [ ] ## Changes Between your current release family and Zurich, some changes were made to existing Data Privacy features. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__14} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | [Text to Regex from a LLM](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=configure-data-discovery-patterns&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) : Create a regex data pattern with the help of Now Assist, which supports all third-party LLMs approved by ServiceNow. [Full scan support added](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=configure-data-discovery-jobs&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) : Data Discovery jobs support full type scans, which scan for sensitive data patterns in all the records. You can also use an incremental scan, which acts as a delta scan from the point of the last full scan. [XLS and CSV support added](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=data-discovery-attachment-scanning&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) : Data Discovery attachment scan type jobs now support XLS and CSV files. Attachment scans are incremental scans by default. Key word matching : As part of key word matching when discovering sensitive data using regex, more precise data pattern matching has been implemented, using full strings of text. This may require customers to add more specific variants of keywords to achieve the same level of discovery precision as prior platform releases | [ ] ## Removed Between your current release family and Zurich, some Data Privacy features or functionality were removed. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__20} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Deprecations Between your current release family and Zurich, some Data Privacy features or functionality were deprecated. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__26} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Activation information Review information on how to activate Data Privacy. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__32} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | Activation information : Data Privacy is available with activation of the Data Privacy Plugin (sn_dp_store_app). For details, see [Activate data privacy](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-activate-data-privacy&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US). Important: Data Privacy is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes. | | Zurich | Activation information : Data Privacy is available with activation of the Data Privacy plugin (sn_dp_store_app). For details, see [Activate data privacy](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dps-activate-data-privacy&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US). Important: Data Privacy is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes. | [ ] ## Additional requirements If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Data Privacy we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__38} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Browser requirements If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for Data Privacy we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__44} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Accessibility information Review details on accessibility information for Data Privacy, such as specific requirements or compliance levels. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__50} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Localization information If there are specific localization considerations for Data Privacy we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__56} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Highlight information If there are specific highlight considerations for Data Privacy we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-dataprivacy-summary__entry__62} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Yokohama | * Leverage Data Privacy in Now Assist to discover sensitive data in Now Assist prompts and data send to models. * Sanitize sensitive data from Now Assist prompts without impacting response. * Discover sensitive data from attachments using enhanced Data Discovery jobs. See [Platform Privacy](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=privacy-landing-page&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US) for more information. | | Zurich | * Use a revamped Data Discovery interface, enhancing your Data Discovery experience with intuitive widgets, a streamlined user experience, and a guided setup for first-time users. * Target scans on specific table columns for discovery using column-level discovery and expanded support for Field Encryption. * Discover PII in Microsoft Excel and CSV files with expanded file support. * Generate regex patterns using prompts with the text-to-regex feature, which leverages Now Assist and supports all large language models (LLMs) approved by ServiceNow. See [Platform Privacy](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=privacy-landing-page&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) for more information. | [ ]